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30/100Critics
81/100Scholars
Author:
Greil Marcus
Publisher:
Yale University Press
Date:
May 3, 2022
For the past thirtyâfive years, celebrated author Greil Marcus has applied his unmatched critical apparatus to everything from music, television, radio, and politics to overheard comments, advertisements, and happenstance street encountersâan eclectic collection of what he calls âeveryday culture and found objects.â This book collects hundreds of items from the crisscrossing spectrum of culture and politics throughout the tumultuous past six years of American life.
What The Reviewers Say
[Marcus] dives in here, comes out there, and always brings with him the unexpected: ancient treasure in the form of a billboard, an ad in a regional newspaper, a song by a band you never heard of. Even better, he connects it all in a way that makes our world seem often odder, occasionally more sinister, and always more delightful than it did before.
Even Marcus fans who have never read a single one of these columns will recognize some of the writer’s favorite topics from Dada to Dylan to punk to Randy Newman to the legend of Stagger Lee, all of which make multiple appearances through the book’s 500-plus pages. If that page count seems daunting, fear not. There isn’t an entry you’ll want to skip.
Marcus isn’t overly political, but neither is he shy of excoriating Donald Trump, often in the words of others.
